allenpike.com
Allen Pike
CEO, Steamclock Software
Essays on running an engineering team and company, technical craft, and leadership from a founder's seat.
paperplanes.de
Mathias Meyer
ex-CEO, Travis CI
Paperplanes. Reflective writing on leadership, remote culture, and running an engineering company.
longform.asmartbear.com
Jason Cohen
Founder, WP Engine
A Smart Bear. Long-form strategy on building products, teams, and companies from a serial technical founder.
joelonsoftware.com
Joel Spolsky
Co-founder, Stack Overflow / Fog Creek
Joel on Software. The canonical early blog on running engineering teams, hiring, and software management.
blog.codinghorror.com
Jeff Atwood
Co-founder, Stack Overflow & Discourse
Coding Horror. Widely-read essays on software craftsmanship, hiring, and leading developers.
apenwarr.ca
Avery Pennarun
CEO, Tailscale
Sprawling, original essays on engineering strategy, org dynamics, and the realities of building companies.
mtlynch.io
Michael Lynch
Founder, TinyPilot; ex-Google
Transparent writing on solo founding, hiring, and engineering management lessons from inside Big Tech.
yegor256.com
Yegor Bugayenko
Founder/CTO, Zerocracy
Opinionated, polarizing essays on management, object-oriented design, and how software teams should be run.
brodzinski.com
Pawel Brodzinski
CEO & Management Author
Long-running blog on management, Kanban, leadership, and building a humane company culture.
mattrickard.com
Matt Rickard
Founder & Engineer, ex-Google
Short, frequent essays on engineering, infrastructure, and the strategy of building technical products.
kalzumeus.com
Patrick McKenzie
Engineer & Writer, ex-Stripe
Foundational essays on salary negotiation, running software businesses, and the economics of engineering work.
erikbern.com
Erik Bernhardsson
Founder/CEO Modal; ex-CTO Better
Data-rich, contrarian essays on engineering leadership, developer productivity, and building technical companies.
mitchellh.com
Mitchell Hashimoto
Founder, HashiCorp
Reflections on founding HashiCorp, returning to hands-on engineering, and building developer tooling like Ghostty.
rauchg.com
Guillermo Rauch
CEO, Vercel
Essays on shipping, developer experience, and engineering leadership from the founder of Vercel and Next.js.
blog.jessfraz.com
Jessie Frazelle
Co-founder, Oxide Computer
Deep systems writing on containers, hardware, and engineering leadership from a co-founder of Oxide.
drewdevault.com
Drew DeVault
Founder, SourceHut
Opinionated essays on open source, sustainable software, and running an engineering-first company.
tom.preston-werner.com
Tom Preston-Werner
Co-founder, GitHub
Essays on open source, optimizing for happiness, and the founding engineering principles of GitHub.
